Arnold Jacobs Tuba Tree?

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue May 02, 2006 5:14 pm

As others have said, this might be a futile effort because it touches everybody.

After all, I'm a second-generation AND a third-generation Jacobs student. I studied with Mike Sanders (briefly, and the result is NOT his fault, as is true of my other teachers), who was a student of Jacobs and Cherry Beauregard. I have also studied (also briefly) with Gil Corella, who was studying with Dave Fedderly at the time, who was a student of Jacobs.

I took a couple of lessons from Lee Hipp, who studied with Ev Gilmore, David Kirk, Dennis Miller, and Don Little. That puts me in the third generation of Bill Bell, Don Harry, and Jacobs again. And I get Little and Jacobs again through the couple of lessons I took with Jay Rozen.

Sheesh. You'd think all that teaching and performing power would have yielded better results. Oh, yeah! It ain't the teacher doing the playing!

Rick "who thinks tuba pedagogy is a small, small world" Denney

Charlie Goodman · Post by **Charlie Goodman** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:23 pm

bort wrote:So you're looking for people with a "Jacobs Number" of 3.

(I'll be surprised if anyone gets that.)

Six degrees of Kevin Bacon, yo.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:26 pm

No, the package says you have to get it hotter than that.

passion4tuba · Post by **passion4tuba** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:10 pm

Ev. Gilmore was my private lesson teacher in 6th grade..i'm trying to buy the Cerveny he played..

so i guess i would qualify as A.J's student's student's student .....

?

Anyways...wouldnt almost any tuba player in the last..uh..30 years..in some distant way be a student of Arnold Jacobs?

ContraDude · Post by **ContraDude** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:37 pm

rofl
mmm... bacon

LoyalTubist wrote:

No, the package says you have to get it hotter than that.

RyanSchultz · Post by **RyanSchultz** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:17 pm

If I'm remembering correctly Abe Torchinsky took some lessons with Mr. Jacobs when he (Mr. T) was pretty young. â€œMr. Tâ€

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:26 pm

[quote="RyanSchultz"] â€œMr. Tâ€

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Wed May 03, 2006 8:25 pm

Yeah, being one generation removed from being one of Bill Bell's students, I think Bill Bell still needs to be remembered. Let's not forget him!

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Thu May 04, 2006 12:01 am

LoyalTubist wrote:Yeah, being one generation removed from being one of Bill Bell's students, I think Bill Bell still needs to be remembered. Let's not forget him!

Considering the subtext of TubaChristmas, I really don't think you need to worry about that.

Rick "who thinks tuba celebrities are too few to be forgotten if they make it past the first generation" Denney

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Thu May 04, 2006 12:18 am

I could mention some forgotten tubists from the past:
August Helleberg, Sr.
August Helleberg, Jr.
John Helleberg
John "The Chief" Kuhn
Min Leibrook
Joe Tarto
Fred Geib

Speaking of the Hellebergs, if you go to the Red Hot Jazz website, you will see a tuba player mentioned on a couple of the band rosters named Gus Helleberg. This is August Helleberg, Jr!

tubiker · Post by **tubiker** » Fri May 05, 2006 11:39 am

MartyNeilan wrote:No disrespect intended, but almost EVERY serious tubist today can probably fit into category C.

Not where I live...................

Andrew Murray

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri May 05, 2006 12:06 pm

LT, I join you in being BB(2)

(I hope that's not too depressing for you!

)

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Fri May 05, 2006 4:57 pm

How many sons did August Helleberg (Sr.) have?

sloan · Post by **sloan** » Mon May 08, 2006 2:49 pm

bort wrote:So you're looking for people with a "Jacobs Number" of 3.

(I'll be surprised if anyone gets that.)

Only those of us with Erdos numbers <= 3 actually got it.

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